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CHARIOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chariot" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Derivation:
chariot (ride in a chariot)
chariot (transport in a chariot)
charioteer (the driver of a chariot)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chariot" is a kind of...):
horse-drawn vehicle (a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses)
Derivation:
chariot (ride in a chariot)
chariot (transport in a chariot)
charioteer (the driver of a chariot)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ride in a chariot
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "chariot" is one way to...):
ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
chariot (a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage)
chariot (a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome)
charioteer (the driver of a chariot)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Transport in a chariot
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "chariot" is one way to...):
carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
chariot (a light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage)
chariot (a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome)
charioteer (the driver of a chariot)
Context examples:
I hurried away a few paces, and called a hackney-chariot which was passing empty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
After half an hour's cooling in the churchyard, I saw the chariot coming back.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At nine, accordingly, we went out in a little chariot, and drove to London.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He could turn cramp-bones into chessmen; fashion Roman chariots from old court cards; make spoked wheels out of cotton reels, and bird-cages of old wire.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I was trying to familiarize my mind with the worst, and to present to myself the arrangements we should have to make for the future in their sternest aspect, when a hackney-chariot coming after me, and stopping at my very feet, occasioned me to look up.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
After I had written to my aunt and told her of my fortunate meeting with my admired old schoolfellow, and my acceptance of his invitation, we went out in a hackney-chariot, and saw a Panorama and some other sights, and took a walk through the Museum, where I could not help observing how much Steerforth knew, on an infinite variety of subjects, and of how little account he seemed to make his knowledge.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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